Police release name of pilot who crashed plane on Bay Head beach

8:25 AM,
Dec. 25, 2012

Neither occupant was injured when this plane flipped during an emergency landing on the beach in Bay Head.

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Police have identified the pilot of a small, two-passenger plane that crashed on a borough beach Sunday afternoon.

Christopher McMenamy, 31, of the Manahawkin section of Stafford, had rented the Cessna Skyhawk II plane in Princeton to do aerial photography. He told police he experienced engine problems roughly two miles south of Bay Head, but did not see a safe place to land the plane and so landed around 3:30 p.m. Sunday on a wide borough ...